Business & GA

Astronics Buys Max-Viz

Astronics on Tuesday said it will acquire privately-held Max-Viz, a developer and designer of Enhanced Vision Systems (EVS) for fixed and rotary wing aircraft, for $10 million in cash. Additional purchase consideration…

Commercial

X-47B UCAS Demonstrator Completes Flight Test

The Northrop Grumman-built X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator completed its historic first flight from Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. The 36-minute flight – the first for the tailless, strike-fighter-sized…

Business & GA

Curtiss-Wright to Supply ADAUs for Primus Apex

Curtiss-Wright Controls received a contract from Honeywell to provide Advanced Data Acquisition Units (ADAU) for use on its Primus Apex Integrated Flight Deck. The Curtiss-Wright Controls products will provide the conversion of…

Business & GA

Avidyne, MIT to Study ADS-B

Avidyne and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) were awarded a $4 million, three-year grant to study Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) under the FAA's Airborne Traffic Situational Awareness with Alerts (TSAA) program.…

ATM Modernization

Europe ANSPs Gear Up for Olympics

Eric Bruneau, director operations of the French Direction Service Navigation Aerienne, and Chris Stadler, head of operations Maastricht UAC, observe operations at the FABEC Olympic cell in Maastricht, the Netherlands. With the London…

Military

Mercury Computer Awarded Image Processing Contract

Mercury Computer Systems, of Chelmsford, Mass., received $5.2 million in follow-on orders from an unnamed defense prime contractor for rugged, digital signal and image processing modules for multiple airborne radar applications. “We…

Commercial

U.K., France Advance UAS Cooperation

France and the U.K. are moving forward with its defense cooperation, announcing France will undertake operational assessments and trials of the Thales Watchkeeper unmanned aircraft system (UAS) in 2012 and 2013 and the two…

Business & GA

Rockwell Collins’ AIM Certified for More Aircraft

Rockwell Collins said Tuesday its Ascend Aircraft Information Manager (AIM) data transfer and management system has been certified for the Dassault Falcon 2000, Hawker Beechcraft B300 Series King Air and the Piaggio…